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Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major CPUs. This is finally changing at Google, with the announcement that the company has developed its own in-house datacenter CPU, the Axion. Google's Axion processor is based on the Arm Neoverse V2 (Arm v9) platform, which is Arm's current-generation design for high-performance server CPUs, and is already employed in other chips such as NVIDIA's Grace and Amazon's Graviton4. Within Google, Axion is aimed at a wide variety of...
ARM Announces CPU Design Center in Taiwan
As part of Computex 2014, ARM has announced their first CPU Design Center in Taiwan, focusing on the next generation of Cortex-M class cores for IoT and wearables. ...
4 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2014
ARM Expects ~1B Entry Level Smartphones in 2018, $20 Smartphones Coming This Year
When we first started covering mobile, nearly every silicon vendor I spoke with issued the same statement: eventually, all phones are smartphones. Continued scaling on process technology, combined continued...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
ARM's Impact on the Chip Market: 100M China-Designed SoCs Shipped in 2013
At its second ever Tech Day, ARM shared a pretty interesting slide about its impact on the mobile SoC market. ARM's business model allows for pretty much anyone to...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
ARM Shares Updated Cortex A53/A57 Performance Expectations
With the first Cortex A53 based SoCs due to ship in the coming months, and Cortex A57 based designs to follow early next year, ARM gave us a quick...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
AMD is also working on a new 64-bit x86 Core
Jim Keller joined Mark Papermaster on stage at AMD's Core Innovation Update press conference and added a few more details to AMD's K12 announcement. Keller stressed AMD's expertise in...
112 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Announces K12 Core: Custom 64-bit ARM Design in 2016
In 2015 AMD will launch project SkyBridge, a pair of pin-compatible ARM and x86 based SoCs. Leveraging next generation Puma+ x86 cores or ARM's Cortex A57 cores, these SoCs...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Announces Project SkyBridge: Pin-Compatible ARM and x86 SoCs in 2015, Android Support
This morning AMD decided to provide an update on its CPU core/SoC roadmap, particularly as it pertains to the ARM side of the business. AMD already committed to releasing...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
ARM Partners Ship 50 Billion Chips Since 1991 - Where Did They Go?
A few weeks ago ARM celebrated its partners shipping over 10 billion ARM based chips in 2013. As ARM makes a royalty on every IP license shipped, it was...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2014
NVIDIA Announces Jetson TK1 Dev Board; Adds Erista To Tegra Roadmap
Continuing our coverage of NVIDIA’s 2014 GPU Technology Conference, today we’re looking at NVIDIA’s Tegra-related announcements. As Tegra is primarily a consumer facing product, especially the pre-K1 parts, NVIDIA...
33 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2014
ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015
ARM has been doing a good job figuring out its PR strategy as of late. In the span of a couple of years we went from very little outward...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/11/2014
ARM and Partners Deliver First ARM Server Platform Standard
The demise of innovator Calxeda and the excellent performance per watt of the new Intel Avoton server were certainly not good omens for the ARM server market. However, there...
15 by Johan De Gelas on 1/29/2014
It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC, 64-bit/8-core Opteron A1100
Around 15 months ago, AMD announced that it would be building 64-bit ARM based SoCs for servers in 2014. Less than a month into 2014, AMD made good on...
124 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/28/2014
AMD 2014 Mobile APU Update: Beema and Mullins
Today AMD is taking the wraps off their upcoming mobile APUs, joining the already discussed desktop Kaveri. While Kaveri will also be coming to laptops at some point in...
47 by Jarred Walton on 11/13/2013
Intel to Fab Altera FPGAs with ARM IP
In a story posted today on EETimes, Altera announced at the ARM Developers Conference that they have entered into a partnership with Intel to have their next generation 64-bit...
44 by Jarred Walton on 10/30/2013
The Next Generation of Micro Server SoCs: ECX-2000 vs Atom 2000
Calxeda has announced its second generation SoC, the ARM Cortex™ A15 based EnergyCore™ ECX-2000. We try to estimate how this new Server SoC compares to the latest Intel Atom...
45 by Johan De Gelas on 10/29/2013
Samsung Announces big.LITTLE MP Support in Exynos 5420
It hasn't been much of a secret in the SoC space that big.LITTLE on the original Exynos 5 Octa (5410) didn't end up working in the most optimal fashion...
30 by Brian Klug on 9/11/2013
The ARM Diaries, Part 2: Understanding the Cortex A12
A couple of weeks ago I began this series on ARM with a discussion of the company’s unique business model. In covering semiconductor companies we’ve come across many that...
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/17/2013
The ARM Diaries, Part 1: How ARM’s Business Model Works
We’ve had well over a decade of Intel sharing its beliefs with us, but this is ARM’s first attempt at doing the same. What will follow over the next...
65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2013
AMD Evolving Fast to Survive in the Server Market Jungle
There are two important trends in the server market: it is growing and it is evolving fast. It is growing fast as the number of client devices is exploding...
80 by Johan De Gelas on 6/18/2013
ARM Cortex A12: Between Cortex A9 and A15 in Power & Perf, Sampling in Late 2014
We’ve talked about the hole in ARM’s product lineup for quite a while now. The Cortex A9 is too slow to compete with the likes of Intel’s Atom and...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2013
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